Salad is never more appetizing than when served in a large wooden bowl.

The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't.

There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.

It is just as disastrous to have the wrong accessories in your room, as it is to wear sport shoes with an evening dress.

I always put in one controversial item. It makes people talk.

You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.

I believe in doing the thing you feel is right. If it looks right, it is right.

No room can be called perfect unless it has real comfort.

Too much of anything is the beginning of a mess.

Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.

The more mirror-minded you become, the more your home will reflect shining charm!

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.

You are not yourself in autobiography. It is never going to be you, it is only words on a page. Memories are unreliable, so adding the magic of imagination will make your story come alive.

A true friend is like an umbrella that opens her heart to protect you on those rainy days.

All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.

I love theater. Just, it never spoke to me.

I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.

Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.

There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.